it can cause bone marrow not to produce enough red blood cells‚ which can lead to anemia. Also‚ it can damage the immune system by changing blood levels of antibodies and causing the loss of white blood cells.” (CDC‚ 2013) The extend of benzene poisoning depends on length of exposure‚ preexisting medical conditions‚ route‚ and amount. At the Love Canal‚ there was over 6‚900 tons of chlorobenzenes buried. Acute effects due to benzene found at the Love Canal included narcosis and skin irritation. Along
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Lipstick was seen as long as five thousand years ago in the city Ur‚ near Babylon. The process of making lipstick and the ingredients used have changed dramatically over the years. Today lipstick is the most popular cosmetic and according to the April‚ 2006 issue of “Ladies Home Journal‚” sixty five percent of women use lipstick daily and twenty five percent won’t leave their homes without it. I’m not sure how they got these statistics‚ but they’re interesting. Lipstick is made of many different
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Assignment 2 Poverty and Pollution Case April Carranza Dr. Cathy Parks BUS 309 – Business Ethics December 4‚ 2012 Poverty and pollution are both bad. Poverty is the lack of the things we need for everyday living. Everyone needs the following in order to stay out of poverty: food‚ water‚ shelter‚ education‚ medical care and security. People that do not have these items are considered below poverty. People that live in third world countries do not have access to these things. There are
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been used in rodenticides and pesticides to kill pests like rats and insects. It is also why accidents involving over-ingestion of fluoridated dental products–includingfluoride gels‚ fluoride supplements‚ and fluoridated water–can cause serious poisoning incidents‚ including death. The debate today‚ however‚ is not about fluoride’s acute toxicity‚ but its chronic toxicity (i.e.‚ the dose of fluoride that if regularly consumed over an extended period of time can cause adverse effects). Although
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are poisoned and can’t use their own water from their faucet‚ they debate what we should do first to fix this crisis. The answer may seem pretty obvious. We just need to replace the pipes‚ despite the cost‚ to ensure that no one else can get lead poisoning. If we do this‚ the people of Flint would again‚ be able to drink and take showers. Even though this
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PICA Life Span Psych Sitting at the park on a marvelous day watching the kids play in the park‚ then it happens one kid starts eating dirt. Wondering why he’s doing it‚ and what’s his motive? Intrigued‚ I go home and research the symptoms and I come up with one word: Pica. But what exactly is Pica? Pica is a very rare disorders with an interesting history‚ where signs and symptoms help diagnosis the treatments for it. Pica is a disorder in which you have an appetite or weird
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the aquifer. They show that the resulting changes to the chemistry of the groundwater have the potential to either increase or decrease arsenic levels‚ in a paper written by an MIT-led team of scientists in the Nov. 22 issue of Science. Arsenic poisoning‚ usually characterized by sores on the chest‚ or blackened knotty palms‚ and cases of skin‚ lung‚ liver‚ bladder and pancreas cancers have been linked to arsenic in the drinking water. In 1998 the World Bank agreed to provide Bangladesh a $32.4 million
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mother and father of the children were both Caucasian ages 23 and 31. They were of low socioeconomic status and received WIC and food assistance. They both had high school educations‚ but hadn’t completed college. The mother had never heard of lead poisoning or the environmental risks‚ symptoms‚ etc.‚ and was eager to learn. The father wasn’t present for the teaching.
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What do cancer‚ radiation‚ and technology have in common? The links between the three are quite extraordinary. Cancer is a disease that accounts for 13% of all deaths in the world (Delfino and Day 1). The disease has an impact on patients‚ friends and their love ones. According to WebMD‚ radiation is energy that travels in the form of waves through radiation therapy. Through radiation therapy‚ radiation is used to stop‚ slow or cure the growth of cancer. With technology‚ radiologists can treat
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On January 16‚ 2016‚ President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint‚ Michigan to be in a state of emergency due to the widespread lead poisoning of the city’s residents that later became known as the Flint Water Crisis (Southall 2016). The crisis began in April of 2014‚ when the officials of Flint decided that‚ in an effort to conserve dwindling funds‚ the city would switch their main water source from Lake Huron‚ to the Flint River (Southall 2016). Almost immediately‚ the residents of Flint began
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